Broken Link Checker — site crawl + external links

Find every dead link on a website before your visitors (or Google) do. Crawls same-site pages, extracts every link, verifies each one — internal and external — and tells you exactly which pages the broken links sit on.

• Real verification: HEAD with automatic GET fallback, redirects followed, final URL reported
• External links included (optional) — the ones that rot most
• Actionable output: each broken link lists the pages it was found on, so fixing it takes seconds
• Summary row: pages crawled, links checked, broken count — track link health over time on a Schedule
• Only-broken mode for lean reports; full mode for complete link inventories

Input

{
    "startUrls": ["https://example.com"],
    "maxPages": 50,
    "checkExternal": true,
    "onlyBroken": true
}

Output (one dataset item per link)

{
    "link": "https://partner-site.com/old-page",
    "status": 404,
    "ok": false,
    "internal": false,
    "found_on": ["https://example.com/resources", "https://example.com/blog/post-7"]
}

Plus one summary item: {"_summary": true, "pages_crawled": 50, "links_checked": 420, "broken": 7}.

Pricing

Two events, charged only for completed work:

• page-crawled — per same-site page fetched and scanned
• link-checked — per unique link verified (each link checked once, however many pages it appears on)

Pages that fail to load are not charged.

Typical setups

• Weekly link health: Schedule with onlyBroken: true → empty dataset means all good; rows mean fixes needed
• SEO audits: full inventory of internal + outbound links with statuses, exportable to CSV/Excel
• Post-migration QA: run before and after a relaunch and compare

Works with AI agents

Exposed via Apify's MCP server — an agent can run "check example.com for broken links and summarize what to fix" autonomously.